Aquarium of Vulcan

Scattered throughout Sir Thomas Browne's collected writings there can be found various remarks and observations relating to aes...

The frontispiece engraving accompanying Ole Worm’s Museum Wormianum (1655) provides an abundance of clues to the contents of Sir...

The British artist Peter Rodulfo's Testing the Water conjures a numinous moment. In a lugubrious twilight at a sea-side pier, a ...

It was the literary critic Peter Green in 1959 who first speculated -  ‘Did Browne possibly take laudanum? It seems very likely. ...